Former slaughter-free dairy farmer and cheesemaker Andrea Davis had a change of heart after recognizing that her work, like all dairy farming, depended on bringing more and more babies into the READ ON
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Former ‘Slaughter-Free Dairy’ Farmer: No Such Thing As Humane Dairy
Mindful Meats: My Neighborhood Slaughterhouse
What the owners and managers of this business are implying by scrawling “Mindful Meats” on the slaughterhouse is that there is something different happening inside this building now, that they READ ON
Wisconsin’s Faustian Bargain: Canned Hunting, Breeding Factories and Killing Fields to Save Wildlife
The hunting defense frames hunting, not as sport or leisure, but as essential conservation work, based on an appeal to fear, warning that wildlife populations will spiral out of control READ ON
My Journey from ‘Humane’ Dairy Farmer to Vegan Cheese Maker
In retrospect, having been fooled by the allure of humanely slaughtered meat, I see the great irony of this labeling ploy. Marketers have to work harder to desensitize people who READ ON
Marloes Boere grew up on a dairy farm in the Netherlands
“As a child, I have witnessed the cruel separation of mother and calf over and over again, and was told that it was normal and necessary. This couldn’t be further READ ON
Dairy Farmer Turned Vegan Sanctuary Founder: ‘I denied that I liked them. There was no other way.’
“Before, I denied that I liked them. There was no other way. I wanted to earn a living. And now they are more like comrades. You are happy, you talk, READ ON
Helen Peppe, small family farmer
“Observing the deaths of so many animals, animals who enjoyed playing in the pastures and pens with their lambs, calves, and piglets, I wanted to protect them, to save their READ ON
Christine Mariani Egidio, former sheep farmer
“I am horrified to tell you my motto about our sheep breeding business. I would tell everyone, “They have a really great life, up until they no longer have one.” READ ON
Renée King-Sonnen, former beef farmer
“The experience of watching them leave, the mamas wailing for a week, and the absence of their souls in the pasture haunted me. I’ve cried so many times over this READ ON
Dr. Raised on Dairy Farm Now Advises Dairy-Free Diet
“Cow’s milk IS baby calf growth fluid. No matter what you do to it, that is what the stuff is. Everything in that white liquid – the hormones, the lipids, READ ON
